Social entrepreneurship : how to start successful corporate social responsibility and community-based initiatives for advocacy and change
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Social entrepreneurship : how to start successful corporate social responsibility and community-based initiatives for advocacy and change
Routledge, 2010
- : pbk
- : hbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-230) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What motivates someone to become a social entrepreneur? What are the competencies needed to be effective social advocates and agents for change? This book answers these questions in an accessible and practical way, providing comprehensive guidelines, numerous examples, and sources of information and training for anyone who wants to start a community-based social advocacy and change initiative or for employees who want to start a corporate social responsibility initiative.
Features include the following:
examples of individuals and organizations who have learned from successes and failures in social entrepreneurship
self-assessments to help readers evaluate their own talents and proclivity to be social entrepreneurs
steps and strategies, competency-building activities, and assessments to evaluate and facilitate initiatives
resources available from foundations, government agencies, and other sources for the budding social entrepreneur
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship
2. What Motivates a Social Entrepreneur
3. Competencies for Social Action
4. Steps and Strategies for Social Entrepreneurship
5. Developing High Performing Social Action Teams
6. Overcoming Barriers and Facilitating Social Entrepreneurship
7. Evaluating Success: Measures of Social Performance
8. Learning Resources
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